Identifier: farthestnorthbei01nans (find matches)
Title: Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930 Sverdrup, Otto Neumann, 1854-1930
Subjects: "Fram" Expedition 1893-1896) Arctic regions
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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making eight specimensin all. While time was passing on, the plan I had beenrevolving in my mincl during the winter was ever upper-most in my thoughts—the plan, that is to say, of ex-ploring the unknown sea apart from the track in which theFrain was drifting. I kept an anxious eye upon thedogs, for fear anything should happen to them, and alsoto see that they continued in good condition, for all myhopes centered in them. Several of them, indeed, hadbeen bitten to death, and two had been killed by bears ;but there were still twenty-six remaining, and as a set-off against our losses we had the puppies, eight of whichhad been permitted to live. As spring advanced, theywere allowed to roam the deck, but on May 5th theirworld was considerably extended. I wrote thus : Inthe afternoon we let the puppies loose on the ice, and Kvik at once took long expeditions with them to fami-liarise them with their surroundings. First she introducedthem to our meteorological apparatus, then to the bear-
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RHODOSTETHIA ROSEA.(From a photograph.) The Spring and Summer of 1894. 417 trap, and after that to different pressure-mounds. Theywere very cautious at first, staring timidly all around,and venturing out very slowly, a step at a time fromthe ships side; but soon they began to run riot intheir newly-discovered world. Kvik wras very proud to conduct her litter out intothe world, and roamed about in the highest of spirits,though she had only just returned from a long drivingexpedition, in which, as usual, she had done good workin harness. In the afternoon, one of the black and whitepuppies had an attack of madness. It ran round theship, barking furiously ; the others set on it, and it bit ateverything that came in its way. At last we got it shutin on the deck forward, where it was furious for a while,then quieted down, and now seems to be all right again.This makes the fourth that has had a similar attack.What can it possibly be ? It cannot be hydrophobia, orit would have appeared among

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